From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Hilman Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: mach-omap2: smartreflex: fix another memory leak Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:36:06 -0800 Message-ID: <87k4h2z1k9.fsf@ti.com> References: <1297083471-6341-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.240]:57096 "EHLO na3sys009aog116.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751520Ab1BNWgW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:36:22 -0500 Received: by mail-yi0-f42.google.com with SMTP id 28so3460922yia.15 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:36:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1297083471-6341-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> (Aaro Koskinen's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:57:51 +0200") Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: tony@atomide.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Aaro Koskinen writes: > Temporary strings with volt_* file names should be released after the > debugfs entries are created. > > The patch eliminates kmemleak reports with the following stack trace > (multiple objects depending on HW): > > unreferenced object 0xcedbc5a0 (size 64): > comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294929375 (age 423.734s) > hex dump (first 32 bytes): > 76 6f 6c 74 5f 39 37 35 30 30 30 00 00 00 00 00 volt_975000..... > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > backtrace: > [] create_object+0x104/0x208 > [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf0/0x17c > [] omap_sr_probe+0x314/0x420 > [] platform_drv_probe+0x18/0x1c > [] driver_probe_device+0xc8/0x188 > [] __driver_attach+0x68/0x8c > [] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x74 > [] bus_add_driver+0xa0/0x228 > [] driver_register+0xa8/0x130 > [] platform_driver_probe+0x18/0x8c > [] sr_init+0x40/0x74 > [] do_one_initcall+0xc8/0x1a0 > [] kernel_init+0x150/0x218 > [] kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8 > [] 0xffffffff > > Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen Thanks, queuing for 2.6.38-rc cycle. Kevin > --- > arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c > index 77ecebf..61aebed 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/smartreflex.c > @@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ static int __init omap_sr_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > strcat(name, volt_name); > (void) debugfs_create_x32(name, S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, nvalue_dir, > &(sr_info->nvalue_table[i].nvalue)); > + kfree(name); > } > > return ret;